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Littleboom

Your world was bombed and destroyed by unknown. And you need restore and revenge.

Little boom is a sandbox game influenced by alchemy genre and The Little Prince novella.
In it you can mix elements and rebuild your world from them.
Some of items in the world can interact and mix too. And all of them can be destroyed with bombs to get more elements!

Comments

Nice Idea, even with an intro :-) Opening the inventory with the button could also be done via mousebutton, especially since the player is a bit too large for the ludum dare window. Other than that, nice one

The UI is quite intuitive and the instructions are sufficient for a basic understanding of the mechanics. The crafting system is a bit confusing. Which elements can I combine and how do they have to be placed? I feel like the placement of the elements is kind of unnecessary...
Otherwise, interesting concept and a nice basis for further development. :)

The bomb sounds are blown out ... far too loud and full of bad distortion.

Drop bombs and collect elements ... Cool idea. I couldn't figure out what to combine how ... ANd I dropped a bomb on the place with the tower (is that my place ?) and then the instructions disappeared ... And then I didn't know what to do next ... What am I doing again ?

The bomb sounds are blown out ... far too loud and full of bad distortion.

Drop bombs and collect elements ... Cool idea. I couldn't figure out what to combine how ... ANd I dropped a bomb on the place with the tower (is that my place ?) and then the instructions disappeared ... And then I didn't know what to do next ... What am I doing again ?

Its rare to see an intro video so I liked that. It took me a while to realise that you had to put the items in the right place in the grid however I think this is a nice take on those element combining games.

I REALLY like the idea! Nice intro too (Explosion sounds are really loud in the intro, though) :)

I think the combination box could use an "empty"-button if you want to throw all the ingredients out of it. Maybe also a box that shows you recipes that you've already found out (and maybe ones that you've found out that don't work). Perhaps the combination box could start with just two slots, so you don't think that you have to fill it up to make a combination :D

I didn't understand why the bombs would go up and down, which caused me to miss click a few times.
The first few times I got stuck and had to refresh the page to restart.
Also, the music changed for no reason after a while

I like the fact that there's an intro sequence with some backstory, I also like that there's some text that tells me the first steps I need to do once in the game... but it sort of ends there. I'm at a loss when it comes to figuring out what Im supposed to do after doing the four steps mentioned.

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